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Naturally, such comments make Jewish officials squirm. "To say the least, we don't like their ideology," says Alexander Bligh, the Prime Minister's adviser on Arab affairs. "We can live with it as long as it's not translated into violent acts." But the Galed attack has made the government more wary of the movement...
...catastrophe in Prince William Sound came into focus, people had little trouble deciding where their sympathies lay: with the seabirds and otters suffering and dying in the oil-laden waters, not with the hard-drinking skipper who was in his cabin doing paperwork when his tanker plowed into Bligh Reef...
...burning holes in thousands of pockets. The work force that spearheaded Exxon's $1 billion effort to erase the largest oil spill in U.S. history was calling it quits before the winter-storm season descends on Prince William Sound. Six months after the Exxon Valdez ran hard aground on Bligh Reef and dumped 260,000 bbl. of crude oil into one of the most scenic bodies of water in the world, the ship's owner was declaring the great cleanup of 1989 complete...
...directive stating that, provided visibility exceeded two miles, pilotage endorsements were no longer mandatory after a vessel passed a certain point in the sound. But the point at which the new rule applied is unclear. The Coast Guard argues that only certified officers could command ships down to the Bligh Reef area, where the Valdez ran aground. Hazelwood's attorneys insist that the point of freedom was the established pilot station at Rocky Point, some seven miles north of the reef. Hazelwood's position appears to be bolstered by a 1986 memo from Alaska Maritime Agencies, a Valdez shipping agency...
...change-of-shift preoccupations of a watchman to explain why the ship was not picked up on radar. More important, although seamen insist they rely heavily on Coast Guard monitoring in the entire sound, Coast Guard officials maintain they are not technically required to track ships as far as Bligh Reef...